Unless you’re on linux, most of the time developers mess with the HTTP interface of PHP since it’s implemented in the PHP-Apache-Module and that’s what local development servers such as XAMPP uses as well.
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Secrets of Flickr Scaling Architecture
Came across this interesting post on highscalability about flicrk’s architecture and how they were able to grow and scale their hardware, software, business and growth.
If you are new to scaling, this slide might help.
Remarkable New York Times TimesMachines Archives
Couldn’t be more amazed to see this at New York Times in what the developers call it the TimesMachine
What is TimesMachine?
TimesMachine = The New York Times Archives + Amazon Web Services
CSS Optimisation with Dust Me Selectors Firefox Extension
If you’re a perfectionist, eat, drink, sleep and dream about css design and optimization, then this latest firefox extension from sitepoint might be for you.
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Get Database Query and Results Directly in Excel with SQL Excel Add In
SQL Excel adds easy database access to MS Excel. This addin helps in simplifying data retrieval from SQL Server, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, DB2, Firebird and any other ODBC compliant database.
The Addin adds a toolbar into Excel. You can then setup the details to connect to your ODBC data source.
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Oracle vs MySQL vs PostgreSQL
Found this Fermilab summary where a comparison of these 3 popular relational database management systems (RDBMS) was made back in 2005.
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Differences Between utf8_unicode_ci and utf8_general_ci
If you’re building web application or software that targets an international audience who speak and read languages other then english, than utf8 is one of the character sets that you must know about.
I was messing with a mysql database and wonder what are the differences between the collations utf8_unicode_ci and utf8_general_ci.
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New HTML5 Specification Supports getElementsByClassName
There was a time when web developers wonder why there was support for getElementsByID but nothing for getElementsByClass or something like that. Developers had got used to writing hacks to get around this and although some javascript libraries do have functions to do this, they are still custom built instead of a native support by the HTML specification.
The good news is, HTML5 is now supporting getElementsByClassName!
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Open Source Components in Adwords Editor
While installing Google Adwords Editor on a second computer of mine, I came across the license agreement (terms and agreements) of using the software. Usually, I just pretend that I read and browse to the bottom and press “I agree”. But while doing that, I notice that Adwords Editor was built using some (not all) open source librabries such as libCurl, OpenSSL, SQLite and MySpell.
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Cool Bookreader Javascript Effect
This bookreader javascript effect provides quite a nice feel of reading a book in your internet browser. Is there any similar javascript effect that you know of that can do something similar to that? Yes? Leave a comment.